(v. t.) To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
(v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
(a.) Discomfited; overthrown.
(n.) Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
(2) (Of course, she was also perfectly aware of the feminist content, what it said about the disgusted-attracted-contemptuous male gaze, but she preferred the art to ask the questions, discomfit, not preach.)
(3) It has been just over two decades since genocide was last perpetrated on European soil, a discomfiting memory that has been largely buried in a continent now intent on stopping the arrival of escapees from more recent mass murder.
(4) In that discomfiting political situation, the party’s instinct is to fall back on the NHS.
(5) Cameron looked discomfited.” It fell to William Hague to defend the prime minister in the spin room.
(6) On 16 March 2012, the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge released two discomfiting documents from the Margaret Thatcher Foundation.
(7) ISS said it was understandable that Shell investors would feel “discomfited” by the significant volatility in global crude prices but added: “It is worth recognising, however, that the spot price today may be of very little value in assessing the strategic opportunity of a transaction whose benefits will be realised over decades.
(8) Its high-profile role fighting Isis in Iraq, Assad’s retention of control in Syria with the help of its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebel takeover in Yemen have all been deeply discomfiting for the Saudis.
(9) Just as Blatter was crushed by the banner headlines in his native Switzerland when the FBI swooped, so Platini will have been most discomfited by the front pages in a France.
(10) It was one of the tricks of Hoffman's elegantly cruel performance that when Freddie met his bloody end, the audience was likely to feel relieved and complicit; he was such a doggedly discomfiting presence, it was clear he could be stilled only by death.
(11) Most people would be discomfited to learn how detailed a reconstruction of their lives their mobile phone operator could produce if required – right down to a pretty good guess at when they have been speeding in their cars.
(12) For politicians, it can be “too discomfiting” to accept that contemporary culture is a significant contributor to the problem of emerging extremist views.
(13) Now that the eruption has taken place, we blunder in with our prescriptions on democracy, only mildly discomfited by the amount of our hardware that has facilitated the long history of oppression.
(14) In the UK, we are still slightly discomfited by the idea of baring all in a confessional essay, partly, one presumes, because we are restrained by a sort of cultural prudishness, but also because we do not wish to appear self-indulgent.
(15) Later, her memory of it would be a blur that left her with the discomfiting sense that, at least in some people's minds, the medicines were being given "for the greater good", to get the exhausted, frightened staff out more quickly, as there were too many patients who were immobile.
(16) His collaborations with Peter Gabriel reflected Gabriel's restless, discomfiting aesthetic just as well as the Floyd designs had chimed with their music: the artwork for his self-titled third solo album (aka Melt), for example, consisted of a single shot of Gabriel's face, apparently melting off his skull , something achieved by the simple expedient of smearing a still-developing Polaroid (a technique later known as Krimsography).
(17) There will be laughs, Shanbag emphasises – but Arpana will not shirk the unsettling side of All's Well , one of Shakespeare's most discomfiting plays , the ostensibly comic plot of which (a woman pursues the man she wants so doggedly that she ends up tricking him into bed) is at odds with its riddling, uncertain tone.
(18) The people who describe human beings in this way often have scores of pictures, including images obviously taken without consent that discomfited the subject.
(19) Those two dissenting members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), Rachel Brand and Elisebeth Collins Cook, both lawyers in the George W Bush administration, did not endorse bulk metadata collection so much as they were discomfited by the scope of their colleagues’ castigation of its legality, propriety and utility.
(20) But Arron is probably at his most discomfiting on the gathering darkness of Europe’s economics.
Overthrown
Definition:
(p. p.) of Overthrow
Example Sentences:
(1) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
(2) Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) Yanukovych: The time has come for me to say that I intend to continue the fight for the future of Ukraine... Nobody has overthrown me February 28, 2014 1.12pm GMT Yanukovych begins by saying it is high time for him to announce his decision “to fight for the future of Ukraine against those who use fear and power”.
(3) The Tobruk parliament was Libya’s second elected legislature since longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising.
(4) Tunisia was ruled with an iron hand for 23 years by dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali until he was overthrown in a popular uprising in 2011 that sparked the Arab spring across the region.
(5) But lawyers for the victims say that whatever the circumstances of his arrest, the accusations are valid and were laid long before any suggestion that Morsi would be overthrown.
(6) If there is any danger of the regime being overthrown then all the sectors will actually unite against that … because their existence depends on this regime."
(7) In 12 Years a Slave, however, this reassuring cliche is overthrown, and the relationship between Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson) and Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) makes a mockery of the one between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen).
(8) Legal action and threats of litigation against the media and telecoms watchdog Ofcom in particular have held up the auction the new 4G mobile spectrum, overthrown a long battle to force BSkyB to share its sports and films programming with other channels, and delayed cuts to the cost of calling a mobile phone.
(9) Many of the journalists I spoke tried to convince me that army rule represented much-needed stability, a rare commodity during the years of turmoil since Mubarak was overthrown.
(10) The self-exiled president appealed to the US Congress, Senate and supreme court to reconsider the aid package being prepared to shore up Ukraine's depleted finances, arguing that US law forbids aid being given to a country that has overthrown a legitimately elected president.
(11) In 2001, when the Taliban were overthrown, there were fewer than 1 million children in school, very few of them girls.
(12) Dictators had been overthrown in Tunisia and Egypt, protests were shaking Bahrain, and Nato was poised to intervene in support of rebels in Libya fighting Muammar Gaddafi.
(13) By the time Mobutu was overthrown in 1997, after two decades of American and other western largesse, his country had just about one tenth of the paved roads it had had at independence in the early Sixties.
(14) In an interview in today's Guardian he says he is financing political opposition within Russia and believes the Putin regime will only be overthrown by force.
(15) They are on opposite sides of the Syrian conflict; on the same side of the fight against the Islamic State ; and on opposite sides of the Yemen conflict, where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have overthrown the proxy US government and are now under bombardment by US ally Saudi Arabia, which is uncomfortable with the nuclear deal.
(16) At first, the protesters were mostly from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood , and they gathered to demand his rule continued; once Morsi was overthrown by the army on 3 July, after days of mass protests, they then pushed for his reinstatement.
(17) Morsi was overthrown by the military on 3 July after millions took to the streets to demand he step down.
(18) No more regressive form of taxation has been devised on this continent since the old autocracies were overthrown.
(19) The lords of misrule will not be overthrown by mumbling.
(20) While most experts concluded he was incapacitated by a medical condition, others speculated he had been overthrown by rival power brokers.